Negotiations over farm bill programs like SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), sometimes called food stamps, are especially important for Arkansas, the state with the highest rate of food insecurity in the nation.
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Grinding the poor at the legislature
In the name of preventing welfare fraud, the legislature has approved a difficult-to-enforce, redundant bill to be sure a lucky lottery player doesn’t get food stamps for her kids.
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The heartless legislature at work
Welfare recipients shall not win at the lottery, a couple of legislators want to decree.
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Report: Pandemic increasing hunger among poor Arkansans, state policies part of problem
The state’s limits on food aid to the poor has increased hunger in the state during the pandemic, a new report says.
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Trump moves to throw hundreds of thousands off food stamps
The Trump administration has moved forward with its plan to make it harder to get the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits known as food stamps.
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Reports question Arkansas work requirements for health, food benefits
The Urban Institute issued reports today questioning the implementation and worth of Arkansas’s work requirement for recipients of expanded Medicaid coverage and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamp) benefits.
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Suffer the poor: a food stamp bill symbolizes a session’s priorities
The Senate yesterday passed Rep. Mary Bentley’s HB 1775 to add additional work requirements on recipients of food stamps, but not before a heated exchange between Sen. Scott Flippo, carrying the bill, and Sen. Joyce Elliott, unable to get answers from Flippo to her questions.
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State starts food stamp payments early, with warning, on account of shutdown
The state Human Services Department said it will distribute February benefits under the SNAP (food stamp) program beginning Jan. 17, an early date on account of concerns money won’t be available on account of the continuing federal government shutdown.
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There he goes again: Tom Cotton dishonest about food stamps
The U.S. Senate approved a farm bill yesterday that didn’t go far enough in punishing poor people for the likes of Sen. Tom Cotton, one of 12 Republicans who voted no. Then he chose to, well, lie about it in defending his vote against the interest of farmers, the largest sector of the Arkansas economy.
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Clinton School speaker will focus on farm bill’s impact on food stamps in Arkansas
Ellen Vollinger, legal director for the Food Research and Action Center, will discuss the upcoming Farm Bill legislation and its impact on nutrition programs for lower-income adults and children in Arkansas at an event tomorrow at the Clinton School.